Double Happiness (film)

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Double Happiness
Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by	Mina Shum
Produced by	Stephen Hegyes Rose Lam Waddell
Written by	Mina Shum
Starring	Sandra Oh Callum Keith Rennie
Music by	Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet Mina Shum Harley McCanley
Cinematography	Peter Wunstorf
Editing by	Alison Grace
Distributed by	Fine Line Features
Release date(s)	September 7, 1994 (Toronto Film Festival) July 28, 1995 April 10, 1997
Running time	87 min.
Country	Canada
Language	English/Cantonese
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Double Happiness (French: Bonheur aigre-doux) is a 1994 film by Canadian director Mina Shum.

The film stars Sandra Oh as Jade Li, an artist struggling to assert her independence from the expectations of her Chinese Canadian family. Callum Keith Rennie also stars as Mark, Jade's love interest.

Oh won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for this film.

[edit] Plot

Jade Li is a feisty, 20-something Chinese Canadian, trying to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parent's wishes and fulfilling her own needs and desires - double happiness. Naturally, something's got to give and when love beckons in the shape of Mark, a white university student, the facade of the perfect Chinese daughter begins to slip.